As well as traversal across the environments Frey can climb and run up cliff surfaces and jump too, in similar gameplay to that of 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man.įrey has magical abilities which include forming a shield of light and making vines explode out of the ground at a moment’s notice. Frey moves incredibly fast across the environments, amongst high fidelity backgrounds. The gameplay in Forspoken appears to be action, adventure, and RPG. The most recent trailed sees Frey transported from the modern-day New York setting to one with castles and dragons after stepping through a portal arrived in the mystical lands of Athia. Blainska described Frey as “a young woman in a beautiful yet threatening world”. The main character in Forspoken is Frey Holland who’s played by actor Ella Balinska. First known as Project Athia, the game is going to be releasing in Spring 2022. The studio took the engine developed for Final Fantasy 15 and started development on Forspoken.

Square Enix’s internal teams are generally known for creating Final Fantasy games, but after Final Fantasy 15 Square decided to do something a little different and founded a new internal Square Studio called Luminous Productions, and their mission was to create new IP AAA games. Whether it’s going to keep me engaged for the whole game, that is a question yet to be answered. For a demo, it manages to keep me engaged. It’s fast, the combat is fun, and the parkour is interesting. Personally, I think the demo is pretty good. Other players have said they are glad Square released a demo, because now they know to avoid the game until it goes on sale. A quick glance at the Forspoken subreddit and you’ll see posts titled “The best game Square has released”. It’s a marmite game right now, people love it and people hate it. So far the response to the demo hasn’t been entirely positive, it’s a very mixed review from players. You have a few objectives, you can run around the open world and get a real feel for Forspoken and what its all about – speed, combat and parkour. It’s a fairly unique demo as it appears as if it’s not a section of the game, its an original curated slice of the game. If you were remotely interested in Forspoken, then I would recommend jumping into the demo, before the release on 24th January 2023.įorspoken is readily available on the PlayStation Store. To help generate a little more hype, Square Enix has released a demo available on PS5.

Forspoken has had a long build up, but we’re approaching the time of release coming very soon.

Forspoken impressions